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When I decided to start this blog, I promised myself I wasn't going to waste time trying to go back and capture the 9 months of our lives that have passed in the blink of an eye since Delaney was born. However, I would be remiss to not spend some time reflecting on the year in sports that has ushered in Delaney's first year with us. Often times I find myself wondering what her "gift" will be, and I worry that I won't recognize it in time to help her make the most of it. Will it be singing, dancing, helping others? If I really had to make an educated guess, I would have to suspect it will be something athletic. I mean, this is the kid that was born during the Clay Buckholtz no-hitter! The great grandaughter of 2 college baseball pitchers, and the grandchild of a high-school 2 sport star athlete. As Linwood loves to say, he is going to ducktape a glove to her right hand and hopes that she takes after her mom and grandfather to become a lefty. She has witnessed (okay, slept through, but that doesn't really matter, does it?) a Red Sox World Series win, the Celtics' first championship in 22 years, one of the most exciting (and heartbreaking) seasons in BC football history, and some other big game the Patriots played, but I have really blocked out the details of that one. And of course, she had the fashion to support each team, although since I teased Linwood mercilessly last season for watching the deadbeat Celtics, I couldn't in good conscience put her in a Celtics get-up this year. Who would have guessed? You can be certain we will be jumping on the bandwagon and getting her some Celtics duds for next season.